Hinders

1. To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; droughthinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going. Them that were entering in ye hindered. (Luke xi. 52) I hinder you too long. (Shak)

2. To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out. What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right? (Locke)

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... Sarah P. Otto in her paper (Sexual Reproduction and the Evolution of Sex)7 firmly demonstrates that sexual reproduction very often actually hinders natural selection. If a very complex and intricate system in operation fails to sufficiently serve an assumed function, it may be the case that ...

... motives/interests of the AAAS, just another trade-union, are NOT always/necessarily congruent with the nation's/public welfare and it definitely hinders very effectively advancement of basic science...DH

... which it thrives. The blanketing of the skies via chemtrails to alter the spectrums of sunlight we receive that favors the synthetic biology and hinders the natural life forms on earth that would compete with it. Every enyzeme, hormone and protein responds to different light frequencies. Then ...

... genes" are more likely to survive, i.e. money+ when genes+, however benefits and monetary help as well as "society being all equal" hinders "culling" of the weak. Hence, I think personally, that Human Evolution is probably occurring mostly in undeveloped countries compared ...